26835. Adulteration of canned spinach. U. S. v. Bertes A. Rudolph. Plea of guilty. Fine $50 and costs. (F. & D. no. 36947. Sample no. 19572-B.) This case involved canned spinach samples of which were found to contain worms, insects, and other extraneous material. On April 1, 1936, the United States attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the district court an information against Bertes A. Rudolph, a member of a firm trading as the Robinson Canning Co., Robinson, Ark., alleging shipment by said defendant in violation of the Food and Drugs Act on or about May 9, 1935, from the State of Arkansas into the State of Ohio, of a quantity of canned spinach that was adulterated. The article was labeled in part: "King of Ozarks Brand Spinach * * * Packed by Robinson Canning Co., Robinson, Ark." It was alleged to be adulterated in that it consisted in part of a filthy vege- table substance; in that worms, insects, wood slivers, grass t-wigs, wood chips, and sawdust, had been mixed and packed with it so as to reduce, lower, and injuriously affect its quality, and had been substituted in part for the article. On February 2, 1937, the defendant having entered a plea of guilty, the court imposed a fine of $50 and costs. W. R. GREGG, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.